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KANSAN
Thursday, July 8, 1982 Vol.92, No.153 USPS 650-640
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Carlin requests spending cut
By CANDICE SACKUVICH
Staff Reporter
Govern John Carlin's request last week for a 4 percent spending reduction in state agencies could cost Kansas Regents schools about $2 million, a Kansas Board of Regents member said.
James Pickert, Regents chairman, said, "I spoke with the governor, and he asked that the board cooperate with this request. He wants the FY 1983 budget, which was implemented July 1, cut 4 percent. We're going to make every effort to cooperate with him."
Stanley Koplik, Regents executive officer, said the Regents schools received about 60 percent of their budget.
HE SAID the 4 percent decrease would amount to about $2 million, but he did not know yet how much he should pay.
Glee Smith, Regents Budget and Finance Committee chairman, said the committee would work with the Board to
"We want to hear his reasoning about why he feels it's necessary for all state agencies to participate in this study."
"We're relatively independent, so it's a request for us, in his cabin departments, the other days."
Carlin said last week that without the 4 percent decrease in spending by state agencies, the state would lose $1.5 billion.
HE SAID THAT his action would avert an emergency situation, and that the Legislature had not needed his warnings about the state's dwindling sum of money.
"In April, I cautioned lawmakers that their failure to come to grips with the state's growing debt would further undermine the economy."
economy, would bring Kansas to the brink of economic crisis" , Carlin said.
State Rep. Jess Branson, D-Lawrence, said the governor had proposed a budget based on data from the agency.
"Not even the House leaders were together on it. And in the Senate, opponents of the severance tax did everything they could to avoid its passage," Branson said.
THE ECONOMIC SITUATION has made it obvious that Kansas needs another source of income.
Smith said he thought that, because of the shortfall in revenues, state agencies should cooperate more closely.
"The Legislature will be back in session next January. We trust that if we make temporary cuts now, we will receive reciprocal cooperation from the Governor and Legislature next January." Smith said.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a high in the upper 80s and southerly winds of a 15 mph, according to the National Weather Service, with a nearly cloudy Thursday
Skies will be partly cloudy Thursday night and Friday, with a high Friday of 50°.
It will be partly cloudy Saturday through Monday with highs in the upper mid-70s.
Few days remain for registration
Voters have four more days, including today to register for the August 3 primary.
The county clerk's office in the Douglas County Courthouse will be open until 5 p.m. today and until 9 p.m. Friday, Monday and Tuesday to register voters.
Voters may also register during regular business hours at the following places in Douglas County: the city clerk's office at the Lawrence Building, the University of Texas library and the Telegraphies office in Baldwin.
StudEx ponders alternatives, delavs decision on computer
By CANDICE SACKUVICH
Staff Reporter
The Student Senate executive committee might not follow through on its recent proposal to establish a new senate.
David Adkins, student body president, said he thought no Student Senate funds would be spent.
At the June 26 StudEx meeting, Treasurer Matt Gatew recommend the purchase of a $144 IBM computer system from Computerland in Lawrence. He also recommended buying the service contract at an annual cost of $36. He also recommended processing and accounting in the Senate office.
DAN CUNNINGHAM, executive secretary,
moved to accept the proposal, and the committee
But David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said yesterday that state and University procedures regulate the spending of public money.
"The state of Kansas goes through a bidding procedure to purchase a major piece of equipment."
"StudEx has to specify what they want the computer to do, and commercial units that can be used."
Adkins, who was not at the meeting, said, "I think the new treasurer and the new administrator have been very successful."
ceeure for spending more than $150 from the unallocated account."
HE ADED THAT he did not think the Senate was ready to look at bids yet.
"I think we need to work on a list of specifications for a computer that would best suit our needs."
He said he was also considering other options, such as going on line with the KU administrative team.
"The University is restructuring its accounts-receivable system, so it may become possible for us to use their computer in about a year," he said.
In the past the Senate had considered and rejected the possibility of going on line with the Senate to approve a budget.
"Space is very tight on that system. It's not arranged right now so we could use it. We could only call up a snapshot of a monthly printout of our accounts." he said.
ADKINS SAID he was also considering a con-
tent in the investigation and official officials
were involved.
"It would allow for the purchase of IBM computers at a 25 percent discount, based on a specific quota of computers purchased. If it's approved, it would take about a year," he said.
The options, which could become realities within the year, make him reluctant to spend time with his children.
Young and old meet in foster program
By JENNIFER YALE
Staff Reporter
He reached up and gave the old man a big hug. "I'll see you next week, Poporn," the young boy said.
He was kneeling on the floor next to the old man's chair where he had been speaking distinctly yet gently into a nearly ear ear.
Eleven-year-old Matt Maggiora, Route 2, and Lee "Popcorn" Jones, a nursing home resident, are participants in the foster grandparents program at Autumn Manor, 1800 W. 27th St.
"The people here don't have people come and love them," said Maggiorgia. "You can see the sky."
TWENTY-THREE CHILDREN from the Lawrence Extended Daycare Center and 15 residents from Autumn Manor are involved in the program, which began June 22 and will run through the summer.
The children visit from 9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
every Tuesday and Thursday. They talk to
residents, push them into wheelchairs and
work on individual activities with their 'grand-
"The kids have shown a great independence with it," said Cammie Pillam, director of the daycare center. "They talk with their own foster grandparents as well as other residents."
Larisa Graves, activity director for the nursing home, said, "They are already very attached to each other. The residents are very disapproached when their particular child doesn't show up."
"They know they are something really special."
THIS IS NOT the first program of its kind in Lawrence. Two years ago similar circumstance was reported.
residents of Cherry Manor Nursing Home, but changes in directors of both group terminated
This is the first time that these children and these elderly residents have been part of such an implementation.
"Both the residents and the children were leaver at first." Pulliam said.
Graves said, "Several of the residents have problems talking
For example, one woman at the home has muscular dystrophy and is mentally retarded. Graves said. The woman can't talk, but she can speak. She doesn't have a head with one of the older girls, who reads to her.
Photo by JILL M. YATES
The children were made aware of the problems before the came and they are really good at them.
See Grandparents page 8.
THE CHILDREN and the residents were paired up according to their personalities.
Keith Abrams, Overland Park, Pat Witty, Lawrence and Charlie Barnes, Oklahoma City, members of the Kansas Natural Guard, rest near the Kansas City Power and Light building after a 110-6 crash.
Runners protest nukes
Twenty runners, mostly from Lawrence, participated in an 10-mile run this week to protest a potential increase in utility rates caused by the Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant.
The Kansas Natural Guard's "Run But You Can't Hide" relay began at 7 a.m. Tuesday at the Wolf Creek construction site near Burlington. It ended at 8:30 a.m. at the Kansas City Power and Light offices, 14th and Baltimore streets, in Kansas City, Mo.
"The runners from the area are concerned about the same issues as we are," Keith Abrams, Overland Park senior and KNG member, said yesterday. "The message is the economic problems of Wolf Creek—that rate payers have to bear the burden of cost overruns."
THE COST OF CONSTRUCTION of Wolf Creek has increased from $200 million, as was originally planned, to $1.93 billion, said Charlie Barnes, Oklahoma City sophomore and KNG member. In the end, the overhead cost will be paid by the electric Co., which is building the plant, he said.
Steve Robinson, Wichita junior, said rate payers would probably pay 69 percent more than what they were paying now. Robinson, also a KNG member, said that figure came from an analysis written in the Wichita Eagle and Beacon May 23.
Bob Rives, vice president of assistant services for KG&E, and that raising utility rates for the city are important.
decided upon until a hearing scheduled for three years from now.
The relay was "a tremendous media event," he said. "It seems to have attracted their attention."
"We're building the plant to save money," he said. "It can save money because it uses much less energy."
And attracting the attention of the public was exactly what the Kansas Natural Guard had in mind.
KC&P 1 and KG&E each own 47 percent of the Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant. The other 6 percent is owned by 25 rural electric cooperative through the Kansas Electric Power Cooperative.
The plant is experiencing a one-year delay in construction, Rives said. But this is because of "a longer construction time to meet government regulation changes." he said.
The plant should be finished in May 1984. Rives said.
"We wanted to bring attention to KC&P&L's financial participation in the Wolf Creek project."
THE RUNNERS were each sponsored for the miles they ran. Some ran as many as 22 miles.
The Kansas Natural Guard plans to continue its prestest by camping out at the 41 KRanch at Pine Creek, 5506 N. 28th St., to recruit new recruits.
"We're going to go down there as much as possible."
Radioactive waste at Med Center
Staff Reporter
By CAROL MILLS
KANAS CITY, Kan.—Radioactive waste is being stored at the University of Kansas Medical Center because the usual burial site near DeSoto is full.
"Right now, we are storing the waste at the Med Center until we can find better ways of disposing of it," Dale Dean, chairman of a seven-person Committee at the Med Center, said yesterday.
SAID SAID that the University had used the camp site near Sunflower Ammunition Plant for 2015.
"We need more space there, and we need to expand the area that we have," she said. "All we need is space."
Paula Trinskey, a radiation protection specialist who handles the waste for the Radiation Safety Office at the Med Center, agreed that the dump site was full. She said that a contractor was needed to put up a new fence so that the present area could be expanded.
However, the chief of the Bureau of Radiation Control in Teopea said that permission to enlarge the area was built into the initial application of the Desite site for radioactive waste disposal.
"But we need more room there, and we are waiting for the go-ahead from a licensing bureau in Topkea, which answers to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission," he said.
"They have a little area left," said Harry Borchert, of the Radiation Control Bureau. "But they are rapidly running out of space. They own a much larger area of land than what is currently fenced in. All they have to do is enlarge the fenced area.
"They have, to my knowledge, no reason for asking further permission."
THE WASTE SITE, off Morning Star Road near the ammunition plant, contains sealed drums of compacted radioactive waste from the Med Center as well as the Lawrence campus.
But because the site is full within the fenced area, the radioactive waste is being stored at the Med Center in and near Hixon Hall. Trinkoskey said that the waste had accumulated until there was enough to fill the large steel drums that were, until recently, buried at DeSoto.
"We know where every piece of material is, how it's being stored and where," she said. "I have personally gone out to the dump site with Facilities Operations and supervised the bus."
TRINOSKEY and Dean both said that the level of radiation from the waste materials was so low that, in spite of the accumulation, there was little danger.
"I just use ordinary gloves when I compact the waste." Trinsong said.
Dean said some of the material has a half-life of just six hours. Half-life is the time required for half of the atoms of a radioactive substance to disintegrate.
See Waste page 8.
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